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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5258 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 1 of 3 11 December 2011 at 12:51am | IP Logged |
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I have listened to a little Maltese and some of the sounds seem different than they are
usually described. For example, they definitely pronounce the "r" like the English R (not always, but sometimes), but most sources don't seem to mention that. And the /ħ/ sounds more like /h/ to me, but I could be completely wrong about that... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4772 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 2 of 3 11 December 2011 at 12:29pm | IP Logged |
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I'm not entirely sure, but I think this may have something to do with English influence. English is one of Malta's official languages, and according to the Eurobarometer it is spoken by 88% of the population and for 12% of the population it is the preferred language. It may be that a substantial part of the population is more fluent in English than in Maltese and they have stopped pronouncing sounds that don't exist in English. Edited by vonPeterhof on 11 December 2011 at 12:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5258 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 3 of 3 11 December 2011 at 11:55pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah I get why it's like that. I just don't understand why no one ever mentions it. Is it
that new a phenomenon that nothing has been written about the language since it started happening? That seems odd for some reason...Although, I do remember one thing I read that mentioned the R, but I think it was specifically about the influence of English on Maltese. Regular courses and things like that don't seem to mention it at all... Edited by zecchino1991 on 11 December 2011 at 11:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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